Nassim Nicholas Taleb had a great quote today: "Now gun control may or may not work. But I doubt it will INCREASE these incidents. Which is why we should always analyse regulation in terms of upside/downside."

Clinton admin had a ban on assault rifles that ended a while ago. Pretty sure crime rate has been lower since the ban ended.

Yeah, and I read section by section in my local library so I had the Malcolm Gladwell books and Superfreakeconomics in my stack too when I first read Black Swan so that was pretty interesting block of reading.

"I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,” Gohmert said.

As a teacher who practices lockdowns a few times a year, I'm curious as to how much time elapsed from when the gunman entered the building and/or fired his first shot to when he entered that classroom. How much detail as to what went on in the building has been released?